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    Firefox address bar has become useless...

    Discussion in 'Windows OS and Software' started by j0hn00, Apr 20, 2006.

  1. j0hn00

    j0hn00 Notebook Evangelist

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    Recently, my Vantec Lapcool 2 died and I've been using my notebook without a cooler for the past week. Zipzoomfly really is taking 5 to 7 days to deliver my new Coolermaster Notepal. Anyway, it hit 80F in NY today with the ambient office temp being around 75. I use my notebook for about 12 hours continuously every day for work. Around the 9th hour of use today, I noticed a glitch in Firefox. I can't seem to load a site by using the address bar. I can click on my CNN bookmark to get to CNN, but if I type CNN.COM, then it just reloads whatever page I'm on. My temps were hovering around 50C for both the CPU and HDD. I don't think this is a heat issue, but I haven't installed anything new and can't think of another reason. FYI, I've tried uninstalling > cleaning the registry > using CCleaner > restarting > reinstalling Firefox to no avail. Anyone have any ideas? I really don't want to use another browser.
     
    j0hn00, Apr 20, 2006
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    occassionally, I've gotten a similar issue - closing the browser usually works for me or rebooting the system clears it out too.
     
    jujube, Apr 20, 2006
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    j0hn00 Notebook Evangelist

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    Not in my case... can't seem to get it to work. I tried uninstalling, then deleting whatever remnants manually... still no luck. As it stands now, I'll have to go back to IE till I can figure out a solution.
     
    j0hn00, Apr 20, 2006
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    You could manually clear cookies, cache and the like. Sometimes those get left behind on uninstalls.
     
    ttupa, Apr 21, 2006
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    did you try both versions:
    1.5.0.1
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    1.5.0.2 (released last week)
     
    qwester, Apr 21, 2006
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    Fixed it. Deleting the Firefox folders from both Program Files and Application Data, then reinstalling did the trick. Thanks anyway guys.
     
    j0hn00, Apr 21, 2006
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    The glitch is back... I was due for a fresh reinstall anyway.
     
    j0hn00, Apr 21, 2006
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    Have you done a search over at the Mozilla forums for someone having a similar problem? I've found answers to numorous questions by doing quick searches there.
     
    KoOni, Apr 22, 2006
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    I did a fresh install and the problem came back. I uninstalled one by one the extensions that I use and it turned out to be Gspace that was causing the problem.
     
    j0hn00, Apr 26, 2006
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    Try using opera until a new FF build comes out. I had to do that the last time FF was getting buggy on me. That was about 6 months ago, I must have forgotten to switch back... :D
     
    warlord, Apr 26, 2006
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